Moore's Ethics

This Element critically surveys the full range of G. E. Moore''s ethical thought including: (1) his rejection of naturalism in favor of the view that ''good'' designates a simple indefinable property which cannot be identified with or reduced to any other property; (2) his understanding of intrinsic value his doctrine of organic wholes his repudiation of hedonism and his substantive account of the most important goods and evils; and (3) his critique of egoism and subjectivism and his elaboration of a non-hedonistic variant of utilitarianism that among other things creatively blends aspects of act- and rule-oriented versions of that theory.